Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Driscoll, inter-collegiate quarter-mile champion. J. N. Watters '26, star of the Oxford Cambridge meet last summer, in the other long relay race with Georgetown, will be running against George Marsters, of Portland, Maine who was once clocked in 1.55 on an outdoor track, almost a second faster than watter's best...
...occasion was a football game between German and French civilians. Both teams evinced great sportsmanship and there was no unusually rough play. The French won the match 5?0, their team being faster and cleverer than the Germans, who were heavy and powerful. After the match the two teams exchanged hearty "hoch's" and "vive...
...send only five hundred taxis to so promising a field for exploitation as London. And since New York taxis reach their maximum efficiency only when manipulated by New York chauffeurs, one must expect a proportional exportation of these valuable citizens. London laughs, and looks forward with pleasure to faster transportation; but she little knows the thrills, the dangers, and the daily accident lists which await...
...team last Saturday, tomorrow. While the University should win, Newton will undoubtedly put up stronger resistance on its own courts, even though Cooke, who played No. 1 for Newton last year, is not competing this season. To accustom team A to the Newton courts, which are slightly broader and faster than those at the University, Coach Cowles took the players out on Monday and Wednesday to practice at the Newton courts...
Generally speaking, the faster the landing speed, the greater the maximum speed possible with an airplane. The National Aeronautic Association, which controls all racing in the United Staes, has come out with the definite ruling that 75 miles an hour is the fastest speed at which any plane is "allowed" to land. In Europe, landing speeds of 100 miles an hour for racers are not unknown...